Ironically, Saudi Arabia has condemned Norway’s human rights record, saying the country has failed to protect its Muslim citizens by not restricting the criticism of Prophet Mohammed.
Fayhan Al Ghamdi is not eligible for the death penalty as fathers who murder children and husbands who kill their wives cannot be executed under Islamic law implemented in Saudi Arabia.
Two housemaids were sentenced to jail for 10 years after both were accused and found guilty of practicing witchcraft in their employers' In Saudi Arabia. The Saudi sentenced the housemaids to receive 1000 lashes each and 10 years in jail.
Two men have been given jail sentences in Saudi Arabia after a court decided they had been behind the conversion of a Saudi woman from her previous Muslim faith to Christianity. One of the men was handed a six year jail sentence while the other must serve two years. They will also be forced to receive public lashes as part of their punishment with one man receiving 300 lashes and the other 200.
The Kingdom's concern about Twitter stems from the fact that the social media platform has been made use of to keep people informed of human rights activists on trial. Twitter has been used not only to post tweets about the protests that the Eastern Province witnessed recently, but also to upload images of the human rights activists when the trial was underway in the court.
